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In April, the CRA board voted to give developer One Boynton LLC a half-acre sliver of CRA-owned land worth about $450,000 that once housed a motel.

If the project goes through, the developer would combine that lot with an adjacent 3-acre tract he owns and would construct a $128 million complex rising as high as 12 stories, with 282 residential units and 120 hotel rooms, 18,505 square feet of retail, and 1,168 parking spaces.

The centerpiece and first phase would be a 6-story, 50,000 square feet tower of offices over 300-space garage, with Kanner and Pintaluga as its anchor.

The firm, founded in Boynton Beach, moved to offices near the Arts Garage complex in downtown Delray Beach, but says it has outgrown that and has made a $2.5 million bid on the Arts Garage space.

In the meantime, it expressed interest in moving into the One Boynton project.

At Tuesday night’s meeting, staff told the CRA board the turnover of the CRA-owned tract is awaiting a deal between the developer and the law firm.

Kanner and Pintaluga broker Jim Knight said of the larger, privately owned parcel, “when the current owner purchased the property the values were up here; the values today are down here.” He said the developer’s price tag “has been a stumbling block. That and the parking that we have to work through.”

“I’m trying to build a fire under both sides to get them to come together,’ CRA chair and Mayor Jerry Taylor told Knight. “I would love to see the groundbreaking start coming out.”

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